Madhavi Krishnan

Professor of Physical Chemistry

Madhavi Krishnan is a Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Oxford. She did her undergraduate work at Anna University, Madras, India followed by a PhD at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Supported by Alexander von Humboldt and Marie Curie Fellowships she carried out postdoctoral work in single molecule biophysics and nano-optics at Technical University Dresden and ETH Zurich respectively. In 2012, following a brief stint as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences she was appointed Assistant Professor in Physical Chemistry at the University of Zurich and received a Professorship of the Swiss National Science Foundation. She was awarded the 2016 Nernst-Haber-Bodenstein prize in Physical Chemistry for her current research which examines molecular electrostatics in the fluid phase, including both experiment and theory. The group has recently pioneered an optical measurement technique that reads out molecular electrical charge with unprecedentedly high precision, and is also exploring the use of single molecules as probes for highly accurate measurements of interaction potentials in solution.

Her research group can be found here: https://krishnan.chem.ox.ac.uk/

Research area Imaging Materials and Devices Optical Physics

Research interests Molecular electrostatics in the fluid phase Optical measurement techniques

Department Chemistry

Yvonne Jones

Professor of Protein Crystallography

Yvonne Jones is director of the Cancer Research UK Receptor Structure Research Group which is primarily focused on the structural biology of cell surface recognition and signalling complexes.

Achillefs Kapanidis

Professor of Biological Physics

My group studies mechanisms and machines of gene expression using single-molecule biophysical methods and biochemistry.

Ji-Seon Kim

Professor of Electronic Materials

My research primarily focuses on sustainable molecular semiconductors, expanding into new classes of electronic materials such as mixed electronic/ionic conductors and organic/inorganic hybrids

Adam Kirrander

Professor of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

My research interests are ultrafast imaging, quantum dynamics, and photochemistry.

Madhavi Krishnan

Professor of Physical Chemistry

Madhavi Krishnan is Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Oxford.

Axel Kuhn

Associate Professor and Reader in Physics

I run the Atom-Photon Connection group, working on quantum optics and control, applied in particular to light-matter interactions at the single-quantum level.

Philipp Kukura

Professor of Physical Chemistry

My research is concerned with the development and application of spectroscopic and imaging tools designed to visualise, study and eventually control dynamic processes in chemistry and biology.

Christoffer Lagerholm

Facility Manager

I am the facility manager of the Wolfson Imaging Centre, based in the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine. We specialise in methods of fluorescence imaging, including single molecule and super-resolution (STED, STORM/PALM).

David Lucas

Professor of Physics

I am an experimental atomic physicist working in the field of trapped-ion quantum computing. Previously I worked on cold atoms in optical lattices, and precision measurements for tests of fundamental physics.

Alexander (Alex) Lvovsky

Professor

My research interests are quantum optics, quantum information, and optical computing